Career through all beds
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Career through all beds |
| Original title | The Lonely Lady |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Sasdy |
| script |
John Kershaw Shawn Randall |
| production | Robert R. Weston |
| music | Charlie Calello |
| camera | Brian West |
| cut | Keith Palmer |
| occupation | |
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Career Through All Beds is a 1983 film starring Pia Zadora . Directed by Peter Sasdy , the script was written by John Kershaw and Shawn Randall based on the novel Sehnsucht (original title: The Lonely Lady ) by Harold Robbins . The film won the golden raspberry for worst film in the year of release and was nominated for other raspberries.
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The student Jerilee Randall dreams of becoming a successful writer. After winning an initial award for her work, she meets famous screenwriter Walter Thornton at a party. She leaves the party with Walter's son and friends, but is sexually molested by one of Walter's friends, Joe. Walter can save them from further attacks.
A friendship develops between Jerilee and Walter, and despite the objections of Jerilee's mother, the two marry a little later.
When Jerilee rewrites - and thus improves - one of Walter's scripts, their marriage falls into a crisis and they divorce a little later. In the following years, Jerilee tries to sell her script and has several fleeting relationships. The sexual assault still weighs on her and she eventually has a nervous breakdown.
In the end, she managed to win a prestigious award for her screenplay for the film The Hold-outs . She addresses her acceptance speech at the award ceremony to Walter and admits that she never learned the value of self-respect. She then refuses the award and leaves the auditorium.
Awards
At the fourth award of the Golden Raspberry , the film was nominated in 11 categories. He won it in the categories of Worst Leading Actress , Worst Director , Worst Film , Worst Film Music , Worst Song in a Film, and Worst Screenplay .
In 1990 the film was nominated again for the Golden Raspberry, in the category Worst Film of the Decade . Another nomination followed in 2005, this time in the category of the worst film of our first 25 years .
Career through all beds set a record for the Golden Raspberries, which was only broken in 1995 by Showgirls (13 nominations).
background
The film grossed $ 1.2 million at box offices worldwide.
Ray Liotta made his screen debut in the film.
Reviews
- Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz rate the film in their lexicon "Films on TV" as a flop and say: "What could have been a billing with Hollywood customs, suffocates in amateurish clichés."
- For Roger Ebert , the film was one of the worst of 1983; in his October 1983 review he listed the five most hideous things the film had to offer.
literature
- Harold Robbins : Longing. Roman (Original title: The Lonely Lady ). German by Günter Panske . (Paperback edition.) Pavillon-Verlag, Munich 2002, 410 pp., ISBN 3-453-20643-6
Web links
- The Lonely Lady in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Lonely Lady atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Entry on a Pia Zadora fansite (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on boxofficemojo.com , accessed February 29, 2008
- ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on TV" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 438
- ^ Review by Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun Times, October 6, 1983 , accessed February 29, 2008